Release your inner web hacker ... as soon as this book is published? The real point of blogging, to me, isn't the actual blogging per se; it's the development of the behind-the-scenes tools. These tools will eventually show up as "features" in things that real people use in average, ordinary real life some day, when they try to figure out what the weather will be like, what's good on TV, what new band is hot, or which is the best movie to see, among many other things. Stay tuned. (Thanks for the tip, Marc ... Kokkari, lunch sometime?) « 3:31:39 PM »    

While watching some of the NHL playoffs today -- because the NBA ain't on yet, and because playoff hockey is goodtime hockey, eh -- I had to cap the screen, below, from a Valvoline ad:

Apparently... a father is underneath his car, probably working on the oil pan, and he's telling his kid (son) about how to take care of the machine because, 'One day this will be yours.'

Father and son bonding over cars and grease and sh*t. Now that's beautiful. But it's the gratuitous "Do Not Attempt" super that got my attention. I guess you can tell that I'm not a parent, because if I was I'd be pretty insulted: who the hell is Valvoline that they can tell me what to do with my kids? If I want my boy to know the oil pan, he will know the oil pan. Or maybe they were just saying, 'Don't try to fix your car,' or perhaps, 'Don't get under a car and have deep talks with your infant children.' Wait a minute! I keep forgetting that we're living in the age of Jackass, so these warnings may be necessary. Never mind. « 2:04:27 PM »